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Stowe Family Law

Founded in 1982, Stowe Family Law has grown to become the UK’s largest standalone family law firm with offices in Central London, North Yorkshire, West Yorkshire, Greater Manchester, Hertfordshire, Hampshire & Kent.

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The head of a New Zealand lobbying group for victims of crime has claimed that legalising same sex marriage would lead to an increase in crime. Garth McVicar, head of the Sensible Sentencing Trust, claimed in a submission to parliament that a gay marriage bill currently being considered by MPs would represent a further erosion…

One of Britain’s wealthiest aristocrats has reached a divorce settlement with his fifth wife shortly before a court hearing was due to begin. Spencer ‘Spenny’ Compton, the 7th Marquess of Northampton, and Pamela Haworth married in 1990 but the marriage ended two decades later when the aristocrat reportedly discovered that his wife had become involved…

Japanese Foreign Minister Fumio Kishida has announced plans to sign the Hague Convention on Child Abduction. More formally known as the ‘Hague Convention on the Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction’, this international treaty provides a legal mechanism for the return of children abducted by a parent from one participating country into another. To date,…

The Court of Appeal has upheld a ruling that the two youngest children in a family of seven should be placed for adoption in contrast to their five older siblings who were to enter long term foster placements. The case concerned a mother of seven children, ranging in age from 15 to three years. She…

The The Norfolk Foster Care Association has criticised proposed government reforms to the foster care system, saying they do not deal with the growing problem of false allegations, which it claims are discouraging potential foster carers. In a letter to Education Secretary Michael Gove, chair Raymond Bewry said that when children are removed from foster care…

Popular Indian actress Mamta Mohandas has filed for divorce from her husband after only a year of marriage. The actress, who is best known for roles in Malayalam films from southern India, married businessman and childhood friend Prajith Padmanabhan in December 2011, but the couple have now applied for divorce by mutual consent in the…

A Rotherham man who masterminded a multinational sham marriage scheme has been jailed for six years. Pakistani national Talib Hussain ran a the complex scheme from his home in Rotherham, flying Eastern European women to Islamabad for staged weddings with Pakistani men. The men could then apply for UK visas under EU open border regulations….

The French edition of fashion magazine Elle has waded into the country’s current debates over gay marriage legislation with a special issue devoted to ‘marriage for all’. Publication of the issue followed protests in Paris over the weekend, when several hundred people marched to protest against plans to legalise gay marriage and allow adoption by…

The wife of a jailed Mafia enforcer has sued for divorce. Anthony ‘Tough Tony’ Calabrese, now 52, was jailed for 62 years in 2008 after being found guilty of armed robbery and sent to Leavenworth Penitentiary in Kansas. He had previously been found guilty of extortion. His wife Barbara, 53, has now filed a petition…

The estranged wife of jailed property developer Scot Young has pledged to bring private prosecutions against the bankers she believes helped him to hide his fortune. Michelle Young told the Evening Standard: “We are going to bring in private prosecutions on the criminal conspiracy for all the people involved. It is a big list.” She…